A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

McLean had a series of conflicts with Saturday Night Live writer Andy Breckman, starting when Breckman opened for McLean on tour in 1980.

" On the BTTB U. S. tour, he opened the show performing a brief avant-garde DJ set under the stage name DJ Lovegroove.

At the start of the 1949-50 season, he was still in the Second XI, but when the Test players departed for a tour of South Africa soon afterwards, vacancies opened up.

They came to the attention of the media and Stiff Records when they opened for The Clash on their 1984 tour.

They opened for Super Furry Animals on tour in 1997, and released their debut album for Creation, Mount Everest.

The production transferred thence to Brisbane, where it opened at the Opera House on 15 July, and subsequently embarked upon an eight-week repertory tour of other regional centres in Queensland, including Charters Towers, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Maryborough.

The band also opened for Pearl Jam on their 2011 South and Central American tour in November and their European tour in June and July 2012.

A national tour opened in January 2004.

With his delivery improved, the Duke opened Parliament House in Canberra during a tour of the empire in 1927.

As early as 1985, " the Smiths had spawned a rash of soundalike bands, including James, who opened for the group on their spring 1985 tour ".

Three performances early in Cream's farewell tour were opened by Deep Purple.

Icelandic singer Björk opened concerts on her 1995 – 1997 Post tour with " Le Petit Chevalier " from Desertshore.

When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway theater debut in a musical called Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929.

They also played the main stage of the 2004 and 2009 Big Day Out festival and opened for Metallica in their Australian tour in 2004.

During that tour, the band met punk icon Richard Hell and opened a concert for him.

Before the album was released, Jane's Addiction supported British band Love and Rockets on a two-month tour in late 1987 .. Also in late 1987, the band opened for former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy at the now demolished Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach.

The museum was opened to the public in June 1963, providing visitors with short demonstration trolley rides and an informal tour of the car house.

The band embarked on a European tour with Mudhoney supporting, and opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in the United States.

They joined the tour on July 8, 1967, in Jacksonville, Florida, the second act on a three-band bill, opened by The Sundowners ( band ).

The first English provincial tour opened in 1888, and from then on it was a fixture in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory, with at least one official touring company playing it somewhere in almost every season until the company's closure in 1982.

The tour opened with a shortened greatest hits set followed by a revised production of Operation: Mindcrime with live actors and video ; Pamela Moore reprised her role as Sister Mary.

When the musical opened in Sydney, Australia, the beginning of a national tour, the pre-recorded narrator was Clive " Robbo " Robertson, who performed a futuristic parody of his own late-night TV news show, " Newsworld ".

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term, and, this time it stuck.

The first tour took place as a commercial venture, made without official backing, but the six subsequent visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour, the first representative of the four Home Unions, enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities.

Visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour ( the first selected by a committee from the four Home Unions ) had enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities, although only one of these included representatives of all four nations.

The tour will start in Hong Kong with a match against the Barbarians before moving on to Australia for the main tour featuring 6 provincial matches and 3 tests.

With the announcement of the 2013 schedule and home nation tours to other countries in non-Lions Tour years, it looks extremely unlikely that the British and Irish Lions will have the opportunity to tour Argentina before the 2017 tour of New Zealand.

The most recent tour visited South Africa in May – July 2009, and before that the Lions toured New Zealand in 2005.

In 1849, during his tour of Britain he completed ( a decade and a half before the name Christadelphian was conceived ) Elpis Israel ( elpis being Greek for " hope ") – in which he laid out his understanding of the main doctrines of the Bible.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

During this tour, he was frequently accosted, and at a lecture in Pendleton, Indiana, was chased and beaten by an angry mob before being rescued by a local Quaker family, the Hardys.

His measurements of the tiny effect produced in the apparatus he used were an experimental tour de force, accomplished 18 years before the electron was discovered.

Isaac has a tour of heaven and hell shortly before his death in which God's compassion to repentant sinners is emphasized.

The play ran for a year at the Shubert Theatre, and in the months before its extensive national tour a film version was to be made by MGM.

Tudrick is with the band Detroit Cobras, who he was with before touring on Kid Rock's ' Live ' Trucker tour.

Page and Plant released another album called Walking into Clarksdale in 1998, featuring all new material, but after disappointing sales the partnership dissolved before a planned Australian tour.

Given this understanding, the Board withdrew the allegation of unsportsmanlike behaviour two days before the fourth Test, thus saving the tour.

Both before and after World War II, numerous satirical cartoons and comedy skits were written, mostly in Australia, based on events of the bodyline tour.

We're negotiating with a couple of other extremely huge bands on doing a co-headline tour, something that's never happened before.

He roomed and collaborated for some time with bassist Charles Mingus, before getting a job on Billy Eckstine's California tour, which eventually brought him back to New York.

Many of his variations ( and he has become the de facto master of this musical genre ), including Le Streghe, The Carnival of Venice, and Nel cor più non mi sento, were composed, or at least first performed, before his European concert tour.